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Pastor William FlynnThe Courier Your Messenger For The River Valley

08:53 AM, Friday, April 19 2013 | 2801 views | 0 | 16 | |

One of the greatest treasures we have is the ability to write. It enables communication of ideas, crystallizes thoughts and conveys emotions. Belief systems are given validity simply by writing them down.

When God wanted to communicate his greatest truths to us, he did not just speak to men of old, but he moved upon these men to solidify these truths in written script. There are three distinct times God moves his hand to write, and there are three great lessons to be learned.

The first time we see the hand of God writing is depicted in Exodus 32:16, at the giving of the “Ten Commandments” to Moses, on Mt Sinai. “... And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables ...”

When God wrote His Commandments, he wrote them in stone to signify they are forever and unchanging. Mankind doesn’t break God’s laws, but rather men are broken upon laws of God. It doesn’t matter how societies interpret them, churches rewrite them, or the courts remove them. They stand concrete, unchangeable and unbreakable. God is serious about His Commandments.

God again stoops to teach man concerning the judgment he will face. The place is Babylon, in the palace of Belshazzar. A party was thrown and in the drunken revelry, the king with a presumptuous attitude toward God, and a proud notion called for the consecrated temple vessels his father had taken in conquest, poured wine in them and began to worship the gods.

Daniel 5:5 says “... In the same hour came forth fingers of a man’s hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote ...”

Belshazzar soon discovered the judgment of God on his life. The message written informed him that he had been weighed in the balance and found wanting. He and his kingdom were overthrown that very night. There are consequences for disregarding God and His commandments.

We are also reminded in Romans 14:12 “... so then every one of us shall give account of himself to God ...” These words are not only for the unbeliever, but for the believer as well. It is critically important that the unsaved enter into that judgment with Christ advocating and not in want of salvation.

The believer needs to be aware as well, that the Bible states our works, words, and motives, will be weighed in the balance of a just God, when the final judgment is passed it will be eternal.

One of the most amazing pictures that we have of God writing is seen in John 8:6. The place is the temple. Jesus is teaching the people when he is interrupted by the religious rulers, who had brought a woman, caught in the act of adultery. While they are making their case, notice the reaction. “... Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not ...”

Much speculation has been made as to what Jesus wrote. Did He write the sin of the accused? Was it the accuser’s sins? Maybe it was the woman’s pardon. The point is that when God writes our sin it can be erased, swept away by His hand.

I’m so thankful for how God writes sin, you see, all of us, according to Romans 3:23 “... have sinned and come short of the glory of God ...” By virtue of birth we inherited a fallen sinful nature. By simply living we are guilty of sinful living.

In short all of us have broken God’s commandments, making us candidates for God’s judgment, but Christ laid aside his robes of splendor and glory, and came down to us, stepping into the wardrobe of Mary’s womb and wrapped himself in the robes of flesh, for the purpose of “... Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us ... “

He came to wipe away our sins and write our names in the Lamb’s Book of Life. If you don’t know him, He wants to write your name today!